Marc Garneau, Liberal leadership hopeful and Canada's first man in space, tries out a moonbuggy built by the Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute moonbuggy team in Toronto on Thursday, March 7, 2013. (Jessica Galang/The Canadian Press)

Marc Garneau, Liberal leadership hopeful and Canada's first man in space, tries out a moonbuggy built by the Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute moonbuggy team in Toronto on Thursday, March 7, 2013.(Jessica Galang/The Canadian Press)

Marc Garneau impressed with Toronto high school’s moonbuggy program
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Students at a Toronto school named for a Canadian astronaut turned politician got a boost for their own space dreams from the man himself on Thursday.

Marc Garneau, Liberal leadership hopeful and Canada’s first man in space, paid a visit to his namesake high school to confer with a group of students taking part in a modern-day NASA program.

The space agency’s moonbuggy race invites high school and university students from around the world to build a vehicle and compete in a race at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.

The competition will see a male and female driver shepherd their moonbuggies through terrain and obstacles similar to what astronauts faced in the original Apollo program that put the first man on the moon.

The Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute moonbuggy team, consisting of six students, is the only Canadian high school group participating in next month’s race in Huntsville, Ala.

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